AMD rumored to use 'slow' 18Gbps GDDR6 in RDNA 4 — leaker says Team Red's next generation GPUs won't use GDDR7

Blackmist, 2 months ago

Whatever happened to HBM? I remember it being hyped as the next big thing in memory speeds (I think by AMD), but nobody seems to use it.

heartfelthumburger, 2 months ago

iirc it’s because it’s a lot more expensive compared to normal gddr. It’s still being used in the high end enterprise market.

notthebees, 2 months ago

Also reliability, hbm2 cards seem to have a higher rate of dying

kamenoko, 2 months ago

Ah I remember the old days when a ram generation lasted longer than two years.

cordlesslamp, 2 months ago

Yeah, the days of DDR3 and PCIe 3.0 seems like eternity.

RixMixed, 2 months ago

I’m still on PCIe 3. But that’s mostly because changing motherboards is a pain in the ass.

cordlesslamp, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I’m on PCIe 3 AND DDR3. My Z77 & i7-3770K will NEVER DIE!

Did I mention I’m also game using the integrated graphics HD4000? Trying to optimize a game for 30fps 720p is already half the fun. Currently OC the shit out of that poor piece of silicone. 4.5Ghz all core (default 3.7} and 1.4Ghz graphics core (default 800Mhz). Imma squeeze every last bit of performance I could.

I paid for a CPU with Tj Max 105C, you bet Imma run it at 105C

trashgirlfriend, 2 months ago

If that CPU dies it will haunt you for the rest of your life.

kamenoko, 2 months ago

We’d be all hype when they managed to squeeze another hundred megahertz out of it.

n3m37h, 2 months ago

GDDR6 debuted in 2018

AtHeartEngineer, 2 months ago

Totally fine with me, I just want more vram, way more vram

drkt, 2 months ago

Same. Get me a card with an older chip that has 32/64 gigs of just-decent VRAM but they won’t do it!

AtHeartEngineer, 2 months ago

128gb of gddr5! Lol

Kolanaki, 2 months ago

Who needs texture compression or advanced streaming techniques when you can just have all 200GB of data in memory at once?

AtHeartEngineer, 2 months ago

For gaming, the improvement in cores matters much more than the memory bandwidth, and for machine learning, more memory is needed desperately, so a new core with more vram, even if it’s not the latest hot shit vram, I would be totally happy with.